From Karachi to Kent Station: The Pakistani shopkeeper who learned Irish

Danish Jamshed can be regularly overheard speaking ‘as Gaeilge’ to customers

Danish Jamshed said never found Irish a difficult language to learn and enjoys seeing the reaction from his customers when he uses cupla focail. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A Pakistani shopkeeper who works in Cork's railway station has taught himself to speak Irish, saying the language is “not as hard as you think it is”.

Danish Jamshed, 41, moved to Ireland from Karachi 15 years ago, first living in Shannon, Co Clare, before relocating to Cork the following year.